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Title: Ghost Circles (Bone, Book 7) by Jeff Smith ISBN: 1-888963-09-3 Publisher: Cartoon Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great series takes a turn into the grim
Comment: With "Ghost Circles," the seventh of nine volumes, the "Bone" saga gets very, very serious. While still appropriate for all ages (there is nothing here you wouldn't let your eight-year-old read), this is hardly kiddy fare. It's dark, grim and rarely funny.
"Bone" is an epic story about three "bone creatures" and their adventures in a valley peopled with an assortment of crazy and interesting characters. Looming over it all is the menace of a great evil, revealed slowly over the course of nine volumes, intent on unleashing itself over the world. The series starts off lighthearted, but grows less so as the story unravels itself, as is evident with "Ghost Circles."
In "Ghost Circles," despair rules over all. It begins with the death of a supporting character, leads into suffering for all, and sees the main characters trudge through hopelessness before leaving the reader lingering with the hope that maybe, just maybe, a good end will come for the good guys.
Here, several story threads move ahead independent of each other, the characters separated by a great calamity in the valley. Throughout the volume, the threads appear to be drawing together - even as evil grows. When finishing this, you'll reach for the next volume right away.
Smith combines the kind of classic storytelling perfected by the likes of the legendary Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge) and Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) - pure cartooning with outrageous and expressive faces and gestures - with the epic and engaging plotting of a sweeping fairy tale. "Bone" manages to balance the two well enough to be something fans of both Donald Duck and Frodo Baggins can enjoy.
Jeff Smith's "Bone" series may be critically acclaimed, but it is also criminally overlooked. And that's too bad, because this deserves to be read.
And in the long run, it will be.
There is no doubt people will still be reading "Bone" 50 years from now. Broad and epic in scope yet personal and quaint, this is a charming story in every way that will surely outlast most other comic works on the shelf.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pogo characters and a Disney heroine lost on another planet.
Comment: Sure, sure, the art and the storytelling are great as usual (even spellbounding at times), but I'm still not comfortable with the fact those Bone creatures were superimposed over well-known characters from an ancient comic strip, so that's why I still hate the series so much I no longer buy the books anymore and instead check them out at a local library.
And the plot itself is nothing new, either; a pubescent young princess-disguised-as-a-human-mortal discovers her own magical powers to go on a perilous quest and save the world. It's been done a billion times before in countless Disney movies and many manga books for the girlie audience. So why the eternal fascination with budding females of the royal status? No wonder Di never got a moment's peace.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ghost Circles Review
Comment: The dilagoue is very exotic damped in the usual supense. I admired the well crafted drawings in ink text. Perhaps the ending leaves you lingering for a settled outcome and not held in high climax action. A well balanced adwantage to the epic saga is the modern humor clashing with the medival views.
Jeff Smith has mastered this comic with another inspiring idea of his imagination. He clung to some of the old traits he devloped in his pervious books. However,this is forgiven and I wish for you to read this. Get some hands on experince by reading the whole printed script collection first.
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Title: Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border (Bone, Book 5) by Jeff Smith ISBN: 1888963034 Publisher: Cartoon Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Dragonslayer (Bone, Book 4) by Jeff Smith ISBN: 188896300X Publisher: Cartoon Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith ISBN: 0963660969 Publisher: Cartoon Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Bone, Vol. 2: The Great Cow Race by Jeff Smith ISBN: 0963660950 Publisher: Cartoon Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Rose by Jeff Smith, Charles Vess ISBN: 1888963115 Publisher: Cartoon Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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